PLOT c/MK95-RG · version 1 of 1

The writer reports a shoal of large jellyfish with green tentacles off the last Williamstown pier, which he thought the wind had driven up into Hobson's Bay.

As the steamer passed the last Williamstown pier, a shoal of the common large jelly-fish was encountered, whose green tentacles streamed prettily away behind the pellucid disc, producing pretty colour effects as seen through the somewhat similarly tinted water. As none were seen in mid-voyage, or near Portarlington, it seemed that the wind had driven the shoal up to Hobson’s Bay.Historical passage

About Williamstown

Kind

Reported by source

Who said it

Reported by community

Period

1890

Checked

Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification.

Open questions

None open

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Where it says so

The Victorian naturalist, v.7 (1890-1891) (on archive.org) (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria) · View in PLOT — p. 32, victoriannatural718901891fiel, leaf 52, printed page 32

How they know

accounts-core@0.1.0: screen_passage@1, extract_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural718901891fiel, leaf 52, printed page 32

Limitations

A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.

Framework targets

none linked

Editions

october-26th-release

Cite as: PLOT record c/MK95-RG v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1890), reported by source

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